Not sure what I think about this. My first thought was "you can't take it with you" but then I thought that "the monuments are for those who are left behind", right? Perhaps how they want to be remembered? Some of those mojo had in the link were completely 'scary'!

At the cemetery where my parents are buried, there are eternal lights, and hanging baskets and lots of junk. Sometimes it looks very cluttered. I drive by it everyday (as I live less than a mile from there), and feel bad that I don't stop by everyday - but I know they aren't there anymore ... so not to be callous, what is the point?

Maybe what we did for my parents was over the top too. Their stone is very simple. Their names on either side, two joined wedding bands in the center with the year of their wedding. Then at the bottom the word "mizpah' representing the prayer we always said as a family - "May the Lord watch between me and thee, while we are absent one from the other" Even just that was expensive - I can't imagine some of these others!